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I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.

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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
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I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.
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I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience like that, and I've never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, This is the most boring thing I've ever seen.
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My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.
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I think women are excellent social critics.
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Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.
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I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.
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Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.
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People who were born alone are defined by feelings like Who's gonna be with me when I die? Who will ever understand me? Will I always feel so alone? Maybe if I write a book... and you forget that that doesn't help you so much.
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I think illusion is one of the most interesting things that I've found to think about. Just look at yesterday, and what you were doing, and how important it was, and how nonexistent it is now! How dreamlike it is! Same thing with tomorrow. So where are we living?
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Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.
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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
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You can do great things with low-tech stuff.
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I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.
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If I'm confused, I just spend some time looking at the sky and falling into it. It's not a meditation that anyone taught me, it's something I've done my whole life, and liked doing, and it made me feel like nothing.
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Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.
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If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.
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History is an angel being blown backwards into the future
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